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Edible Book Festival is coming up soon! To get us in the mood, Sophia N. put together a Four to Read More all about those sweets we crave.

Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler

When she was younger, Hudson knew she was going to become a professional figure skater. However, her parents’ divorce when she was fourteen forced her to abandon the life she dreamed of and spend the rest of her life in sadness over what she could have achieved. After baking cupcakes for her mom’s diner for a few years, Hudson gets the opportunity of a lifetime to pursue her dream. She is excited but also terrified, and it’s up to her to decide how much she badly she wants her dream and how much she is willing to sacrifice for it.

Penny and her mother move from the bustling New York city to a small, quiet town called Hog’s Hollow. The worst part? Penny’s father doesn’t come with them and Penny is also tasked with balancing work at her mom’s new cupcake shop, making new friends, and avoiding Charity, the meanest girl in Hog’s Hollow who seems to have something against Penny. Just when Penny is starting to settle in and feel at home in her new town, her parents ask her to make a decision that will change her life forever.

The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

The third book in the Wayward Children series gives us new characters and old friends. Rini drops from a land called Confectionary into a pond at the home for Wayward Children, looking for her mother Sumi. But in this world, Sumi died years before Rini was even born. Rini must somehow find a way to bring Sumi back, so Sumi can fulfill her destiny to defeat the Queen of Cakes. Despite their rule of “No quests,” a few Wayward Children join Rini on a cross-dimension trip to Confectionary, where the sea is strawberry soda and candy corn grows in fields, to resurrect their old classmate.

Twelve year old Foster has a passion for baking and hopes to someday have her own baking show. After moving into the town of Culpepper with her mom, she is invited to bake for the local coffee shop and is able to receive help to overcome one of her weaknesses: learning how to read. However, just when she and her mother begin to feel at home in their new town, their tumultuous past catches up to them and it becomes difficult for Foster to imagine pursuing her dream. Will she be able to rise above and follow her dreams?

Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

Come celebrate Edible Book Festival with the library on Monday, March 26th! We’ll have trivia, games, puzzles, a raffle with an amazing prize, and most importantly, CAKE! Click on over here for more information.

Join the library on Monday, March 26th from 3:30 to 6:00pm to celebrate the 5th Annual Edible Book Festival!

All Casti community members are welcome to attend, submit an entry, and vote. This year we’ll also have a scavenger hunt, a food trivia contest, puzzles, boardgames, and a raffle with an AMAZING prize

The rules:

Must be made out of edible components

Must either illustrate a concept from a book or be food that appears in a book.

As always, we will vote on entries for our prizes.

Prize categories are:

Most Shakespeare-licous

Healthiest

Funniest/Punniest

Best Food Eaten in a Book

Technical Mastery

Best Simple Idea

People’s Choice

Families or groups of students are welcome to collaborate on entries. They may be dropped off in the morning or just before school ends for the day. Please label all entries with creators’ first and last names, andbring in the book that inspired your creation, or a printout of the cover.

All month long, San Mateo County Libraries will host events and authors celebrating comics during the 2018 Comic Arts Fest. Guests include Svetlana Chmakova, author of Awkward and Brave, and Mariko Tamaki, author of This One Summer, Skim, and Boundless! Click over here to see more information.

Jennifer Nielsen talks about her new book The Traitor’s Game with Evelyn Skye, author of The Crown’s Game booksWednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Kepler’s Books
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo ParkEvent details

San Mateo County Libraries is having their annual Comic Arts Fest in February! From their website:

“We’re celebrating the importance of comics, both as an art form and as valid literature, and enabling aspiring artists and readers of all ages through author visits, workshops, and comics-related programs.

Shing Yin Khor and her dog Bug talk about her book The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Mufflier Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito at Burlingame Public Library
Thursday, February 22, 2018, 7:00pm – 8:00pmEvent details

This week marks the start of our annual reading challenge, and this year it’s BINGO!

How it works:

Pick up a bingo card at the library. Put your name on it. (Hint: take a pic of your bingo card in case you lose it!)

Start reading! Each square on the bingo board corresponds to one of the prompts on this doc. Strategize your path to a bingo. The books that you read:
Must all be new to you in 2018 (with the exception of the center square);
Each book can only be counted once (for one bingo square);
Don’t have to come from Casti library, but we have plenty of recommendations;
If you’re not sure if a book will count for a square, check with a librarian.

Keep a file (digital or on paper) of all of your responses to the prompts, including the title and author of the books you’ve read. NOTE: For each item that includes a question, write no less than 3 and no more than 5 sentences.

Once you completed an unbroken line (bingo!) horizontally, vertically, or diagonally on your card, bring your card and the file you’ve been keeping to the library to claim a prize!If you want to keep going, you can earn bingo multiple times on the same card. Hint: it gets easier as you fill in squares! Feeling impressive? You can go for “blackout”: complete all of the 25 squares on your bingo card to win a special prize!